#societies

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. ↗

— Cotton Mather

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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. ↗

— Tom McClintock

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

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You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change. ↗

— David Miliband

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In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

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